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Punjab and of the North-Western Frontier. Some results of his work are to be 
found in his ‘ List of Punjab Plants, which was published in 1867, and in various 
papers which he contributed (some of them in conjunction with Mr. Hemsley) to 
the Linnzean Society and to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. In Dr. G. 
Henderson’s book on Yarkand there are also descriptions of some plants of the 
extreme North-Western Himalaya and of Western Tibet. Mr. (now Sir George) 
Birdwood also made some contributions to the Botany of the Bombay Presidency. 
Five officers of the Indian Forest Department, viz. Dr. Lindsay Stewart, Colonel 
Beddome, Sir D. Brandis, and Messrs. Talbot and Gamble, C.I.E., have within the 
past thirty years made important contributions to the Systematic Botany of India. 
Dr. Stewart collected largely, and published in 1869 his ‘ Punjab Plants,’ a book 
which gives a very imperfect impression of his acquirements as a Botanist. Sir 
Dietrich Brandis issued in 1874 his admirably accurate ‘Forest Flora of the 
North-West Provinces of India,’ illustrated by seventy excellent plates. Between 
the years 1869 and 1873, Colonel Beddome issued his ‘Flora Sylvatica of the 
Madras Presidency,’ illustrated by numerous plates. He also published, between 
1869 and 1874, a volume of descriptions and figures of new Indian plants, under 
the title ‘ Icones Plantarum Indiz Orientalis.’ Colonel Beddome is the only Indian 
Botanist of note, except Griffith, Mr. C. B. Clarke, and Mr. C. W. Hope, who has 
written much on Indian Ferns. His two works, the ‘Ferns of Southern India’ 
and the ‘Ferns of British India,’ published, the former in 1863 and the latter 
between 1865 and 1870, practically give a systematic account, together with 
excellent figures, of the whole Fern Flora of India. Of these excellent books a 
condensation in a popular and abridged form has also been issued. The fourth 
Forest officer who has published contributions to Systematic Botany is Mr. W. A. 
Talbot, whose ‘List of the Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Climbers of the Bombay 
Presidency’ gives evidence of much careful research. And the fifth is Mr. J. 8. 
Gamble, who, besides amassing at his own expense probably the largest private 
collection of plants ever owned in India, has published a systematic account of the - 
Indian Bambusee, a tribe of grasses which, from the peculiarity of many of the 
species in the matter of flowering, had so long been the bane of the Indian agros- 
tologist. Mr. Gamble, in his monograph, gives a description and a life-sized figure 
of every one of the Indian species. Of this monograph (which forms a volume oi 
the ‘Annals of the Botanic Garden, Calcutta’) Sir Joseph Hooker writes (at 
p. 875, vol. vii. of his ‘ Flora of British India’): ‘ It is indispensable to the student 
of the tribe by reason of its descriptions and admirable plates and analyses.’ Mr. 
Gamble has also published a Manual of Indian Timbers. A Forest officer who was 
ever ready to help in Botanical work, but who never himself published, was Mr. 
Gustav Mann, for many years Conservator of Forests in Assam, but now lost to 
India by his premature retirement. Other Forest officers, who have done, and are 
still doing, good botanical work in their various spheres, are Messrs. Lace, Heinig, 
Haines, McDonell, Ellis, Oliver, and Upendra Nath Kanjilal. Mr. Bourdillon, 
Conservator of Forests in the Travancore State, is also an enthusiastic Botanist and 
eollector. 
In the Madras Presidency Botanical work has been carried on during this second 
half of the century by Noton, Perrottet, Metz, Hohenacher, Schmidt (on the Nil- 
giris), Bidie, and Lawson. By the efforts of the latter two a second public 
Herbarium was established in Madras (the first having been broken up many years 
ago), and in this second Madras Herbarium are to be found many of the collections 
of Wight, besides those of the other Madras Botanists just named. 
In the Bombay Presidency the only public Herbarium is at Poona. This is 
of recent origin, and owes its existence to the devotion of four men, viz. Dr. 
Theodore Cooke (late Principal of the College of Science at Poona), Mr. Marshall 
Woodrow (until recently Superintendent of the Garden at Guneshkind and 
Lecturer in Botany in the Poona College), the late Mr. Ranade (a native gentle- 
man), and Dr. Lisboa (a medical practitioner in the Deccan)—all four enthusiastic 
Botanists. The amount of Government support given to the Herbarium at Poona 
has hitherto been very inadequate. It is to be hoped that greater liberality 
may be extended to it now that a stranger to the Bombay Presidency has just 
